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At stake in this election:

Description of government structure:

Assembly: Senegal has a unicameral National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) with 120 seats.

* The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term which is renewable once.

Description of electoral system:

The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.

In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale), 55 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 65 members are elected by majority vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.